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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of Prerender

Ease of use

4.6

Customer Service

4.5

## Pros and Cons in Reviews

SR

Simon R

CEOInformation Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“Was a great experience when it was bootstrapped and independant.“

November 18, 2025

Dave V

Director, Internet StrategyPublishing, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months.

“We ended up writing a LOT of custom code for our CDN front end to handle this, but that was a real pain in the neck. If there had been a better pricing option we'd still be using Prerender.“

January 14, 2022

BK

Ben K

Solutions ArchitectInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“We didnt have to schedule in additional work for server side rendering, it was a cheap solution when comparing it with development costs to do it ourselves.“

December 19, 2021

Patrick L

CTOInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months.

“Control and management of cached pages can be a bit lacking.“

January 17, 2022

NP

Nicholas P

Company OwnerInformation Technology and Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months.

“I found it very easy to submit URLs for crawling by uploading a sitemap, and the dashboard provides a streamlined user experience.“

November 15, 2021

Asaf M

Full stack engineer Computer Software, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial.

“It was not clear that i can't load urls from site map with free trial.“

November 22, 2021

YJ

Yazed J

Software developerInternet, Self-employedUsed the software for: I used a free trial.

“A fast solution if you need server rendering without any hassle of changing a lot of codes“

January 10, 2022

Michael S

FounderComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial.

“Working with Caddy as our http router made it a bit difficult to figure it out.“

November 14, 2021

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Harsha H.  
Software Developer/Partner  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Life saver tool for modern websites built with Javascript frameworks"

November 29, 2021

5.0

I was struggling to get a decent Pagespeed Insights (PSI) score for my React website https://squaredeal.tax/. Even in 2021, search engines and their crawlers are not up to speed with modern websites developed with JS frameworks/libraries. (Angular, React, Vue etc). People suggested Server Side Rendering (SSR). But, my development was done. I didn't want to redo everything. While looking for a suitable solution, I came across prerender.io. I gave it a try, since it didn't require any development efforts. Setup was easy. After configuring Cloudflare workers (since my site is behind Cloudflare), I was very pleased with the PSI score! It was green!

Pros

\* Easy setup \* Free plan to get started and try out the software \* View of cached pages \* Crawler visit logs \* Cloudflare workers These are some of the features I keep using often.

Cons

Documentation has scope for improvement.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hello Harsha, thank you for your review! We agree with you, and have been updating and growing our Knowledge Base. Feel free to take a look!

Erhan S.  
Product Manager  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Prerender helped us to make our SPA visible by search engines"

November 17, 2021

5.0

As a startup and having a SPA website it was not easy for us to have high rankings by search engines. Our most important task was visibility by search engines. All I want was better search engine rating because they couldn't render the site correctly for a long period time and we accomplished this with help of Prerender. Now we have high visibility and speed score.

Pros

I have been using the product for 2 years without any problem. Integration was quite easy. Recently I moved into a paid account. They have affordable and good planned package types which we like.

Cons

I don't remember any bug or feature at the moment.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 22, 2021

Hi Erhan, thank you for your review! We're happy to know you are enjoying your experience with Prerender.io so far. If you need us, we're just an email away!

SR

Simon R.  
CEO  
Information Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Stay away of this company if you need to be wary of your spendings (+250% price upgrade without any value added)"

November 18, 2025

1.0

Was a great experience when it was bootstrapped and independant. Now I'm looking for alternative. We will probably build it ourselves.

Pros

Was nice and good value for money before they delete the free trial and multiply by 3.5 what we were paying

Cons

Price augmentation (x3.5 !!!) with one month notice and only 3 month with -25% to smooth it up Bugs : they do render empty pages instead of just detecting it and they bill you for rendering empty pages.

Switched from

[Botkube](https://www.capterra.com/p/10003953/Botkube/)

Price surge x3.5 ! with one month notice... we are switching to an ssr homemade tool.

Review Source

Eddison N.  
Founder  
Apparel & Fashion  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Software Support is Amazing"

December 28, 2021

5.0

Pros

I really like this tool due to the support and expertise that I received while being a customer of the product. The support desk agents have always gone above and beyond providing me with insights on SEO and helping me debug my code. I have been a customer for 6+ years and the product is simple to use. I would highly recommend anyone using a single-page application to use prerender.

Cons

I have been so blown away by my experience with prerender I have nothing negative to say.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi Eddison, thank you for your review! We're happy to have you onboard and committed to always providing a great service!

Amin M.  
CTO  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Quick and fast pre-render "

December 15, 2021

5.0

Pros

The implementation was very easy, just added few lines to nginx configuration and it was ready to go. Their documentation covers lots of web servers and different stacks. Monitoring and refreshing the pages was a peace of cake.

Cons

When having a huge list of pre-rendered pages it’s some how difficult to find a specific page,

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi Amin, thank you for your review! When looking for a specific page or string in an URL you can use our search function. We are also working on more filtering options.

Josh H.  
Founder  
Internet  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Solved a problem I didn’t have a good solution for"

November 25, 2021

5.0

As e beard launching our SPA, we realized we need a solution to show up in search engines and on social media previews. Prerender solved that.

Pros

Prerender.io made deploying our single page app possible. Self-hosted pre-render solutions exist, but none are as easy to use, as quick to deploy nor as reliable as Prerender.

Cons

The nature of the product means it takes some trial and error to get working right. This isn’t a knock against Prerender, just a fact. And as a UI nerd, I’d love a prettier interface, but our web visitors never see that so it would just be a nice to have.

Reason for choosing Prerender

Ease of use and reliability

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello Josh, thank you for your review!

Lachlan F.  
Founder  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Solved our client-side-rendering issue"

November 16, 2021

5.0

Pros

We were frustrated to learn that client-side rendering in React effectively neutralised any ability to utilise accurate on-site analytics, or get our pages indexed in SERPs. Outside of rebuilding with Next.js, I found Prerender - a very specific tool to solve a very specific problem. And solve it, it did.

Cons

If anything, and I'm sure there's probably a solution, but I found that Prerender sometimes cached multiples of the same root URL, but with random query strings suffixed.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 22, 2021

Hi Lachlan, thank you for your review! Yes, there is indeed a solution for caching multiple of the same root URL. Reach to us and we'll help with that and explain why and when that happens.

Javier G. E.  
CTO  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good SEO for React apps"

November 29, 2021

5.0

Pros

It's very easy to set up via nginx and works perfectly. If you want to show your apps with social media preview, this is the best solution.

Cons

None. I primarily use it to show dynamic content when you share a link of my website and that's all I need.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello Javier, thank you for your review!

Emil R.  
CEO  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best product for crowl friendly websites"

November 29, 2021

5.0

Pros

Very easy to use and super powerful in making our site be parse, previewed and understand by various web crawlers

Cons

This product meets all our requirements

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello Emil, thank you for your review!

David W.  
COO  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Meets Your Needs"

December 8, 2021

5.0

Pros

Affordable, efficient, stable, and effective in its job

Cons

Nothing bad to say. I have not used support so can't speak to that

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi David, thank you for your review!

VS

Varun S.  
Supervisor, Application Development  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Improve SPA google ranking"

December 5, 2021

5.0

Pros

Our Angular website was not properly indexed by Google crawler due to SPA. Using this we're able to indexed our site on Google engine and our ranking became good.

Cons

I don't think any negative points for this.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello Varun, thank you for your review!

FS

Fernando S.  
COO  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Prerender is easy to use and the support is great!"

November 16, 2021

5.0

Pros

The product is easy to use, easy to implement and one of the most important things: the support was great! It is hard nowadays to find a company that cares about your experience with the product. Congratulations! And the new layout is beautiful.

Cons

I found difficult to see what was going on with my cached pages, but now with the new dashboard, layout and features, it is a lot clearer to see the results I am having with Prerender.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 18, 2021

Hi Fernando, thank you for your review! It's great to know you like our new features. We're working on some more, stay tuned!

LH

Lalit H.  
Senior Manager  
Hospitality  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Overall Good"

December 20, 2021

5.0

Pros

product is very easy to use and customer support is very good.

Cons

It should give some custom filters in dashboard so that user can easily search their data.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi Lalit, thank you for your review! We are currently working on adding more filtering options. We are also taking feature requests, so feel free to add some ideas here: https://dashboard.prerender.io/feature-request

PH

Pierre H.  
Senior Software Engineer  
Graphic Design  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Excellent"

December 11, 2021

5.0

Pros

Fast and easy to use, removed the need for backend infrastructure

Cons

Nothing to declare, maybe the concept of why you need the tool

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi Pierre, thank you for your review!

Joris V.  
Co-founder  
Leisure, Travel & Tourism  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Improves your SEO speed scores immediately"

November 16, 2021

5.0

I wanted to make my web app easily accessible by the google bots by avoiding javascript; and it just works.

Pros

It's much easier to set up than any type of server-side-rendering you would develop internally; Very helpful customer support, even before I was a paying user.

Cons

It took a bit of time to figure out how to add other bots (for SEO audits)

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 18, 2021

Hi Joris, thank you for your review! I'd love to know more about your experience, perhaps we could improve our documentation about this. Can you please reach out to support@prerender.io?

NR

Niels R.  
CEO  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Not bad but tricky to configure"

December 16, 2021

5.0

Pros

It did solve my problem, since Google is horrible at parsing SPAs

Cons

Configuring in nginx and setting everything up so it works like it should

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi Niels, Thank you for your review! Configuration can be challenging, so we are continuously working on documentation and onboarding tutorials to make it easier. We have recently added some articles to our Knowledge base, feel free to check them if you come across any issues!

NP

Nicholas P.  
Company Owner  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Critical for SEO and link sharing for JS-based sites!"

November 15, 2021

5.0

After getting the service configured properly, my overall experience in using Prerender was extremely positive- I found it very easy to submit URLs for crawling by uploading a sitemap, and the dashboard provides a streamlined user experience. I'm using the service with my Vue-based personal portfolio site, and it was critical to have static versions of pages for SEO and link share tools, and Prerender has worked very well in addressing these needs.

Pros

I like that the service is very easy to use in providing URLs for JavaScript-based sites to render static versions for crawlers.

Cons

The initial process of configuring middleware could be improved by better documentation- I set up Prerender for my site based on an Apache server, and I needed to review some Github support threads to get everything configured correctly for my server.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 22, 2021

Hi Nicholas, thank you for your review! We are currently looking into ways to improve our documentation and I would love to understand what was missing when you went through the initial process. Please reach out if you'd like to talk about it!

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Does the trick"

December 2, 2021

5.0

I prerender some Angular and React Website to make those indexable by crawlers (expecially facebook sharing)

Pros

It is really easy to handle ad has a lot of adapters

Cons

Unlucky some really usefull adapters are missing, such as Google Firebase and AWS Cloudfront.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello, thank you for your review and for your suggestion!

WC

Will C.  
Founder  
Internet  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great product to prerender your site"

November 22, 2021

5.0

Pros

It's easy to setup and operate. This provided the solution to getting us on Bing and other search engines which didn't render JS. The documentation is helpful.

Cons

There aren't many cons to the product. It does what it says it does.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 26, 2021

Hi Will, thank you for your review!

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Founder  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Quickly helps solve SEO issues for SPAs"

November 14, 2021

5.0

Overall it helped us make sure our content was being crawled properly by Google so that we could show up in search results for users.

Pros

Helped make sure that our SPA was crawlable by google when our SPA relied on some JS technologies that were not supported by Google's crawler bot

Cons

Set up did take a while, the setup seemed non-straightforward to ensure that prerender was only served for crawler bots, since we couldn't serve the prerendered webpage to customers. Working with Caddy as our http router made it a bit difficult to figure it out.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 22, 2021

Hi, thank you for your review! I would love to hear more about your experience - we are looking into ways to improve our documentation and it would be great to understand what resources would have been useful for you.

RA

Rousseaux A.  
CTO  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "My opinion"

December 8, 2021

4.0

Pros

Simple integration to ease the website indexation

Cons

Crawlers visits could be optimized to give more informations about visits over a long period of time

Review Source

Response from Prerender

April 14, 2022

Hi Rousseaux, thank you for your review! We are currently working on our reporting. You can submit Feature Requests here: https://dashboard.prerender.io/feature-request

CM

Chris M.  
Operations and Sales & Marketing Manager  
Retail  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Seeing the benefits"

November 24, 2021

4.0

Has been relatively simple, our web development team have helped with most of the setup so far.

Pros

Easy to set up and our website presence has improved since registering.

Cons

Do not have enough information for people who are using the programme without a tech background

Reason for choosing Prerender

It was recommended by our website developer.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 26, 2021

Hi Chris, thank you for your review! We are currently working on our documentation and we will take this into consideration. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

RH

Ricky H.  
E2E Engineer  
Entertainment  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Best solution for SEO optimization"

November 17, 2021

5.0

I'm not well know about the integration, but we are pretty much satisfy prerender as far as I know.

Pros

Ease of use, ease of integration, good performance.

Cons

None until now, and we are pretty much satisfy the product.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

November 26, 2021

Hi Ricky, thank you for your review!

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Full stack engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Does the job. Easy to integrate"

November 22, 2021

5.0

Works for pre rendering spa to be visible by search engines

Pros

Good docs. Decent metrics. Performs well.

Cons

It was not clear that i can't load urls from site map with free trial. Just a minor annoyance really

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello, thank you for your review!

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Full-stack programmer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A simple service for a simple task done right"

November 30, 2021

5.0

Pros

Its easy to install, has support for most mayor libraries out there, has an API and is fully managed. It was easy to buy and they upgraded the control panel a few months later, which was nice and showed that there is still more work to be done. Its nice to see they are still working on this on a server-side-rendering age. The Admin panel is really nice and easy to use. Currently using it to serve almost 3k pages.

Cons

Sometimes its hard to tweak it so it works on all pages. Im getting some blank pages that I cannot fix. I suspect its my code, as you need to tell it to save the snapshot at the right time. I guess the problem is in making it retry in case there is a timeout, so im always checking if I can improve on that side.

Reason for choosing Prerender

Easy of use, huge community and because its simple, they use a community package installed on their servers and correctly configured.

Review Source

Response from Prerender

December 8, 2021

Hello, thank you for your review! Please reach out to us so we can help overcome that problem!

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